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Wild: Palaeoisopus, or as it's more commonly known as the Giant Sea Spider, is a horrifying sight. Found at big lakes and rivers, these creatures will stick near the surface, somehow clinging on the surface tension with its long legs, like some baby snails have been seen doing back on earth, waiting for its next meal, usually a pelagornis or other surface dwelling sea bird, however it's not opposed to eating fish and other creatures. Once it spots its prey above water it will slowly glide towards it, making sure not to break the tension, before lunging all its legs around the poor critter and being dragged down with it. If it somehow survives, they won't live for long, being injected with a toxin that drains stamina and reduces the victims durability, as well as letting the giant sea spider track it for long periods of time and distance, it won't be long until it eventually ends up being the spiders meal. Domesticated: If you, for some reason, want to tame one of these horrors you'll need to trick it into grabbing a tranq grenade by throwing one on top of it, making it lunge out of the water and getting snoozy from the gases. However, it can't get knocked out in your traditional way because of its reflexes, so once it's stunned from the narcotics you'll want to feed it its preferred food, be that meat or kibble, before it snaps out of it and goes back to its usual position. Repeat this a few times and viola, you've got a giant sea spider of your own. As for the uses of these creatures, many coastal tribes use them as a natural land mine... or sea mine, kind of a combo of those two. They will slow down rafts going over them, and sink any smaller object that goes over them. They're also great travelling companions, being fast both on land and in the water, and because of their reflexes, armor and reflexes they're able to deflect basically any projectile thrown at them! Not only that, but their toxin allows them to track any animal or boat for miles, in case you want to take that on later! Alright, that was kind of a long dossier, but I didn't really know how to make it more compact. Anyway, the Palaeoisopus is an extinct genus of sea spider that lived during the Lower Devonian period. Obviously I've scaled them up a lot, up to around the size of a bloodstalker. Since they weren't actual spiders I'm not giving them any silk or web abilities, but with it being a mainly water-based mount it doesn't really need any of those. Their use is mainly pvp related, being able to deflect most projectiles and acting as obstacles for rafts and other surface-based mounts, but they can be useful to pve survivors, acting as a tracker for anything it hits, which it can do without drawing aggression to itself because of how terrifying it is, and because all it takes is a small scratch for the toxins to take effect! Truly a horrifying freak of nature. As for why I chose just this species, well, tc is full of water, so having a semi aquatic just fits, and I love spiders and any creature that looks like spiders. Anyway, lets get to the good stuff... Passive Abilities: Tension Surfer - The Palaeoisopus can glide on the surface tension, both bellow and above water! This ability is activated with turret mode while swimming near the surface, or automatically after leaping out of the water. While in this state, if on aggressive, it will lunge either out of the water to drag its prey out of the water, or leap into the water and grab whatever's under it, trashing it with its claws and fangs, dealing large ammounts of toxins. If the thing above or bellow it is too big to grab onto, like a raft or a bigger object, it will just do a flury of slashes, dealing large ammounts of toxins. The effect the toxins have include draining the targets stamina, making them take more damage from any source, and tracking them for a set distance. Terrifying - No creature will aggro onto this creature unless they're hit first. This effect is nullified by the ammonites bile. Wall Climb - Lets this creature climb on walls or the sea floor. Climbing walls out of the water drains stamina. Jumping will launch you upwards. Input Abilities: RMB - Slash - Slashes forward with one of its claws, dealing toxin. LMB - Scratch - Scratches the target, dealing next to no damage and doesn't aggro any creature hit by it but inflicts its toxins. Mainly used to weaken or track a creature to find or fight later. C - Tension Surfer - Went in on the details above, but this is a quicker way to set ur creature on it. While in this state you're able to do the ambush attacks yourself or leap out of the water to get to higher places or catch flying creatures. X - Deflect - Stand up on its hind legs, having its other legs ready to deflect any incoming projectiles. These won't be fired right back at wherever the sea spider is looking unlike, lets say, Genjis reflect, and bigger stuff like rock throws and rocket launchers can not be deflected, unless it wears its tek suit. Speaking of which... TEK suit A tek suit available after beating the centre boss(es). While charged it will be able to deflect any projectile right where the spider is looking, dealing damage to anything hit by the deflected projectiles. This suit also allows the spider to jump further out of the water. Also enhances its tracking, allowing it to track poisoned targets for even further. BTW I didn't really come up with a genus name, so uh yeah that's that. Anyways, here are some referance pictures. The first two are reconstructions of the Palaeoisopus and the second two are what I got the idea to make it a tension surfer from, and what that'd kinda look like (don't make it a snail). Oh and arachnophobia I guess, don't kill me.

Wild: Although the Pliosaurus is humongous, it likes to dwell in shallower water compared to other monsters of the sea. It seems they do this because of the lack of competition and the abundance of food. Beach dwellers aren't safe either as they will sometimes pop out the water to snag a quick meal. Taming: Pliosaurus has an iron gut similarly to Earth tiger sharks. To domesticate one of these beast, you will need feed it a variety of items such as meats, organic polymer, hide and angler gel. (Note: All of this may be replaced with kibble). Lastly, you'll need clean its teeth after you fed it, but don't stay too close or you'll be its next meal. Domesticated: With a Pliosaurus by your side, you can do a variety of things. First, With their massive maws, they can grab and immobilize underwater creatures for a some time. Small Wild Creature: Infinitely Small Enemy Creature: 15 min Medium Wild Creature: 8 min Medium Enemy Creature: 5 min Large Wild Creature: 5 min Large Enemy Creature: 1.5 min (Note: Creatures with platform saddles and Alphas can't be grabbed) Even though they have a one seater saddle, Pliosaurus can still grab two ally players. Second, The Pliosaurus can drag unconscious creatures around. Third, They can beach for short time to drag unsuspecting players and dinos into the water. Lastly, After force feeding a Plio there is 50% chance to generate spoiled meat in its teeth.

This creature is the oldest type of snake, that it can be found hiding in the sands of the deserts lurking and crawling for their prey, probably you would think that this creature is going to only prey on jerboas and insects, but don't let that feeling fools you, this 3 meters long snake can prey over medium and a few big creatures, it name means "terrible destructor" (dinilysia) and it honors their name, is not a venomous snake but a constrictor one, it can crush bones easily and trap large creatures making his bones in something similar to tooth paste. This snake can be tamed with small creatures but like with a pet snake you should fed it with alive creatures like the animals you thinked first, jerboas or small insects, but alive ones. When this creature is tamed you can use it as a shoulder pet that can crush the bones of your enemys while it still standing in your shoulder because of it's long body and this crushing hability can also break rocks and any kind of minerals, being more efficient than a pickaxe but it only can do it with the rocks that it's body allows, you know, you can't break mountains with a 3 meters long snake; and it can also trap creatures like a chain bola.